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Medicine, Science, Exploration, Maps, Art and First editions

There are over 600 lots in our current auction with a strong focus on discovering the world around us. There are over 62 lots concerning science of animals with a concentrating on human body and pioneering medical advancements and European exploration, conflict and settlement shown in over 71 maps and texts. We also have a number first editions, art books and a few interesting and quirky items worth mentioning.

We have an impressive collection of works on scientific and medical advancements, many finely bound. Highlight include Fabrica by Andrea Vesalius(Lot 202) who is considered the founder of modern anatomy; A number of good publications by William Harvey who showed the importance of the circulatory system; We also have a first edition by Charles Darwin.

You can explore the battles of power in Europe looking through the maps of Greece, the Peloponnese; and Hungary or in the comprehensive Duke of Wellington Correspondence. There are interesting articles discussing how Britain would use Australia for convicts in the 1786 volume of Town and Country (Lot 565). We also have polar exploration including Mawson’s Australasian in the Antarctic (Lot 187) and Scott’s Last Expedition (Lot324).

We have 45 first editions including 2001: Space Odyssey by AC Clarke (Lot563); Poems by Emily Dickinson(Lot 381); The History of Mr Polly HG Wells (Lot 71); The House At Pooh Corner by AA Milne (Lot171). Other highlights: over 50 fine bindings one by Zaehnsdorf (Lot 180); Signed Dane Edna Everidge Poster (Lot 117); Signed Greatest of All Time Mohamed Ali photographs and book; An original sketch by Pierre Auguste Bonnard (Lot 180) and 1460 Animal Book Pier Candido Decembrio (Lot 218)

Auction: 10am Friday 6^th October 2023.

Viewing weekdays by appointment. Closed Monday 2nd due to public holiday.

This auction we have some wonderful thing to add to your collections including POW watercolours, photographs, the Duke of Wellington, Voyages, Maps, Natural History, Australian Aboriginal and more.

Artist Lewis Morley’s archive of 18 water colours done during his time in the Japanese Prisoner of War camp in Hong Kong (Lot 32).

We also have a photograph of Epstein and the Fourmost taken by and signed by Morley. We have two items done by the controversial photographer Bill Hensen.

There is one more photograph that needs mentioning and that is the picture of Charles Kingsford with Charles Ulm which is signed by both men (Lot 1).

We have an outstanding collection of books related to the Duke of Wellington and the Battle of Waterloo including his Despatchers, Dispatches as well a 22 carat Gold Duke Wellington Medal Book.

For those who collect voyages we have a stunning set of La Perouse by Dillon (Lot 90). We also have an early Cook’s Voyages 1785 (Lot 88) as well as the Abridge Cook’s Voyages 1794 (Lot 75).

We have a large number of maps including Port Jackson, Sydney and Melbourne guides from the 1920s and 1930s,  Staten Island  Argentina, Greece and Macedonia.

There are some stunning natural history books with stunning plates including Gould’s Birds of Australia 1865 (Lot 352); Lydekker Royal Natural History (Lot 342), William Swainson on Natural History and Classification (Lot 383) and Lizar’s Naturalist Library (Lot 347).

We have good Australian Aboriginal books like Carved Trees Aboriginal Culture 1918 Etheridge (Lot 127) and Logan Jack Aboriginals in Queensland 1921 (Lot 124).